"I'm afraid that so much of the responsibility of individuals is being transferred to Washington, " says Jack Mueller, a 67-year-old retired state government worker.

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So I'm afraid the outcome in Iraq is no longer principally in our hands.

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So I'm afraid at any moment my grandmother could just swing down from heaven with a switch.

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So I'm afraid, as I head off for my holidays, I'm going to indulge in a little optimism.

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There is no market place for these things, and so I'm afraid that they're going to guess, and they're going to guess badly.

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And, I'm afraid, the 27-year-old multi-billionaire wants to own each of our identities so that Facebook can become the dominant company of our big data age.

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